We have a different gyprocker here today fixing the issues the last gyprocker caused with uneven and wonky lines, lumpy sections and all the rest.

We had agreed with the Boral Manager that the next step would be to completely sand back the affected ceilings and reset again to remove any bulk that has accumulated from already being set and reset once.

When the gyprocker arrived this morning, this was discussed and agreed to, however when I went to check on him to see how the sanding was going, I simply found him resetting the joins in the ceiling extra wide. No prep work of any type had appeared to have been done as the paintwork from this week had not been disturbed. So now we have 2 layers of paint and 3 layers of setting compound with a 3rd layer of paint to come...To say we're extremely annoyed by this is an understatement!

So I've rang the Boral Manager and have been told that he agrees with the actions of the gyprocker and it's exactly what he would've done, despite agreeing yesterday afternoon that the gyprocker would sand right back before resetting again.

He told me to wait and see what the ceiling looked like again after it was repainted to which I told him if it still looked bad we would have to get them back a 3rd time...

If that's the case, we'll be arguing for them to just replace the ceilings completely - We've just about had enough!

Yep and yet when i just spoke to the MIV he said it was glancing light and not really anything they could do about it...

I pushed harder and they agreed to reset it once more but then it is what it is once it's been painted and they're not touching it again...gotta love that! I'm sure they'd put up with it if it were their home!!!

Painters were cleaning up today on the driveway and supposedly wind knocked over one of their buckets with watery paint in it.

They attempted to hose it down but when that didn't work, went at it with turps and a broom.

End result is flaking sealant and holes in our driveway.

Advised Clarendon straight away and was told to send an email with photos and an outline of what's happened...they have now said it's got nothing to do with them and we would have to sort it out with the painting company directly...Got to love their work!!! Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ ShareLike ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ ShareLike ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ ShareLike ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ ShareLike ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ ShareLike ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ ShareLike ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Share

Painters were cleaning up today on the driveway and supposedly wind knocked over one of their buckets with watery paint in it.

They attempted to hose it down but when that didn't work, went at it with turps and a broom.

End result is flaking sealant and holes in our driveway.

Advised Clarendon straight away and was told to send an email with photos and an outline of what's happened...they have now said it's got nothing to do with them and we would have to sort it out with the painting company directly...Got to love their work!!! Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ ShareLike ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ ShareLike ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ ShareLike ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ ShareLike ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ ShareLike ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ ShareLike ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Share

Painters were cleaning up today on the driveway and supposedly wind knocked over one of their buckets with watery paint in it.

They attempted to hose it down but when that didn't work, went at it with turps and a broom.

End result is flaking sealant and holes in our driveway.

Advised Clarendon straight away and was told to send an email with photos and an outline of what's happened...they have now said it's got nothing to do with them and we would have to sort it out with the painting company directly...Got to love their work!!! Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ ShareLike ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ ShareLike ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ ShareLike ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ ShareLike ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ ShareLike ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ ShareLike ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Share

M and I have just had a huge arguement with our defects manager regarding the state of our replacement doors. What is called honeycombing can be seen on all the new doors. Even though Defect Manager said he's not a door expert he can guarantee it isn't an issue with the doors and would be a painting issue...he's now threatening with legal...

And this is fresh off the back of the painters spilling a bucket of white enamel paint on our 2 month old driveway and us being calm about it..even when they proceeded to clean the paint off with turps and ate away the clear coat sealant...but now we are being particular! Which is supposedly ok but he wants this to stop dragging on...well so do we! We've just about had enough of the B.S. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ ShareLike ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ ShareLike ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ ShareLike ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ ShareLike ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ ShareLike ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Share

So we came home yesterday to find out laundry flooded - because someone didn't reinstall the draft strip after the door was repainted! YAYYY!!!

I have also now been informed that irrelevant of the fact we've escalated the defect with the internal doors they want to come and install all the door handles back onto the current doors...so not only do they expect me to take a day off for this they have given me one business day notice to organise time off - it's meant to be happening on Monday. Their excuse for installing handles onto defective doors? That Corinthian can't come to inspect until the door is complete including handle.

Now this seemed strange to me since the issue has NOTHING to do with the door handle and would basically be a waste of our time and the trades time if they are just going to replace them anyway...

So I ring the Corinthian rep who agrees and says that it would be a gigantic waste of time in putting on handles as it has nothing to do with the defect.

It honestly sounds to me like they're trying to finish things off so that they can just walk away and shirk their responsibility in not only causing the issue but their responsibility in fixing it...

Do you know if the installers back-blocked the joints in the sheets of ceiling gyprock?

We had this same issue when we built a few years ago. During the defect period their maintenance guy came to fix cracking/sagging joints and he went into the roof space to check whether the gyprock joints had been ‘back-blocked’ from behind. They had not. We have large expanses of ceilings in two rooms and the joints were not very good and got worse over time.

He went back into the roof space to back-block all the joints first. That done he came back down into the room, sanded back and refilled the cracked joints and the following day returned to paint. We were very happy with the result.

If you don’t know what back blocking is, check this out....

“Back-blocking is a method for reinforcing plasterboard joints to minimise joint cracking and peaking.

It is not necessary to back-block recessed wall joints, only ceilings joints and butt joints.

Back-blocks are small off cuts of plasterboard that fit between the your trusses or metal batterns.

The Australian standard states that any joints that span at 600mm need to back-blocked. Joints that span over 450mm only need to back-blocked if there are over 3 ceiling joints in the room.”

Haha I doubt it! Considering they thought it appropriate to stub out their smokes on our window sills I doubt they would've taken the time to back block our ceilings...

Who did you build with?

We’re in South Australia and built with a company called Weeks Peacock. We are going to be building again shortly and the lessons learned in our current house will better prepare us for building again. Including back blocking our ceiling joints!

I would say 90% of tradies take short cuts. They want to get in and out and on to the next job. In SA at least I know tradies who say a lot of building companies don’t pay them enough.

If building companies were diligent and looked after their clients best interests, then there would be no issues with achieving a quality job..

Given the amount of defects you have in your house I feel immensely sorry for you. Building is expensive and stressful. Getting a less than satisfactory outcome is unacceptable, but it’s extremely difficult to take on these building companies without incurring even more stress, time and money.😕

I've been told by their admin that there's nothing that can be done to solve the problem as these are residential windows and not considered faulty...Basically we should have known that we had high winds and should have upgraded...it's always 'well, you should've upgraded!'...

Waiting til Monday to send the Defect Manager an email with the link to the video